St. Thomas More's Chase Vallot selected as Mr. Baseball

Catcher, Kansas City draftee adds to banner year

10:00 PM,
Jun. 14, 2014

St. Thomas More's Chase Vallot smiles as he rounds third base after hitting a home run this past season. The Mississippi State signee will forgo college after being selected by the Kansas City Royals as the 40th overall pick in the draft.

Written by

Eric Narcisse
Written for the LSWA

Entering his final year of high school baseball, Chase Vallot's goals were quite simple and from the looks of what St. Thomas More was returning from the 2013 state runner-up team, very attainable.

Vallot merely wanted to cap his high school career by winning the Class 4A state championship and enjoy a better season than he did in any of the previous three campaigns.

Vallot achieved those goals and then some. The Cougars rolled their way to the Class 4A state championship and Vallot played an instrumental role in them doing so as he turned in arguably the best season of his career in which he hit ...